Food in Kyiv: the best restaurants recommended by Anton Ptushkin and Misha Katsurin
Kyiv is a city of incredible people, rich history, and unique dishes. Youtube vloggers Anton Ptushkin and Misha Katsurin have released an extensive guide to the most delicious places in the capital. Find out more about the best restaurants in Kyiv as recommended by true food connoisseurs
Kyiv's food is diverse, unique, and multicultural. Popular bloggers Anton Ptushkin and Misha Katsurin have already released two parts of a video about the best locations where you can eat delicious food and feel the authentic spirit of the capital.
Visit Ukraine's editorial team has carefully reviewed this guide and created a selection of the best places to eat in Kyiv based on the recommendations of Katsurin and Ptushkin. Stay with us as we tell you about Kyiv's colorful street food, how Yevhen Klopotenko defeated russia, which wanted to occupy our borsch, where the most delicious shawarma is in Kyiv, and where the first President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk ate a Kyiv cutlet.
Take something tasty with you to keep you from going crazy and read our review of the most delicious places in the capital!
The best street food locations in Kyiv
This selection begins with Yaroslava, which is rightfully considered one of the culinary symbols of Kyiv. This place is 75 years old, but it hasn't lost its relevance at all. At Yaroslavа you can taste the most delicious pies in the capital!
"Kyivska Perepichka" is another popular street food restaurant that has been operating in the capital for over 40 years. Probably every Kyivite has heard the word “perepichka”, but only a few know its meaning. As restaurateur Misha Katsurin explains, perepichka is a flatbread made from sour dough. At Kyivska Perepichka, these flatbreads are served with sausages, a so-called Ukrainian authentic alternative to hot dogs.
To visit the next location, you need to move to Lisova Street, one of the largest second-hand stores in the capital. A true legend of Kyiv street food, Iraqi chef Hassan, who cooks falafel in a loaf, works here. For only 190 UAH you will get the world's most powerful sandwich weighing over a kilogram! Unfortunately, Hassan's shop was recently destroyed, so he opened a new location at the Platforma art factory.
Don't miss the Sofra chain of restaurants, which serves the best Crimean Tatar pasties. Here you will be able to feel the true taste of the Ukrainian Crimea and get to know this freedom-loving people better.